Kanaka (Pacific Island worker) - Wikipedia Kanakas were workers (a mix of voluntary and involuntary) from various Pacific Islands employed in British colonies, such as British Columbia (Canada), Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and Queensland (Australia) in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Kanaka | Indigenous, Pacific Islanders, Melanesians | Britannica Kanaka, (Hawaiian: “Person,” or “Man”), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, any of the South Pacific islanders employed in Queensland, Australia, on sugar plantations or cattle stations or as servants in towns
Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia He Aliʻi Ka ʻĀina; He Kauwā ke Kanaka (The Land Is Chief; Man Is Its Servant): Traditional Hawaiian Resource Stewardship and the Transformation of the Konohiki
Inside Kanaka Town: The Hawaiian diaspora that powered Americas . . . Between 1820 and 1850, nearly 500 Hawaiian men left their island homes for the Pacific Northwest They came as workers for the Hudson’s Bay Company, with most landing at Fort Vancouver By 1846, these “Kanaka” laborers made up a whopping 43% of the fort’s workforce
Minority without a champion: the Kanaka contribution to the western . . . Kanakas, Owhyees, Blue Men, were all names given to laborers from Hawaii, or the Sandwich Islands, who contributed significantly to the economic, cultural, and political history of the United States territory west of the Mississippi River in the period 1750-1900
CRISIS AND RESPONSE – The Kanaka Crisis - naa. gov. au In 1901, amidst the excitement of the birth of Federation, one of the first pieces of legislation passed by the federal government was ‘The Pacific Islander Labourers Act’ It required the deportation of around nine thousand South Sea Islanders (known as “Kanakas”) resident in Australia